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Global Enterprise Application Category - Procurement Market Intelligence Report

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  • 105 Pages
  • January 2019
  • Region: Global
  • SpendEdge
  • ID: 4803934
An enterprise application is a set of programs with business tools such as enterprise content management, customer relationship management, and enterprise resource planning, which supports departments such as HR, finance and accounting, and IT services to control the data and the workflow of organizations. Based on type, global enterprise application market can be categorized into CRM, ERP, BI, and database management applications. The spend momentum of this category will accelerate owing to the increasing data volume and adoption of data analytics by organizations that will drive the business intelligence applications segment of the market.

Covered in this report

The report provides actionable insights to improve source-to-contract cycle performance in the Global Enterprise Application Market. It helps sourcing professionals formulate better category strategies, enhance savings, understand supplier and market challenges, and implement sourcing best practices.

The report, Global Enterprise Application Market, provides up-to-date information about market shifts and potential risks, as well as in-depth knowledge of products and services, which can help in planning and in executing category management activities. It focuses on the cost-saving aspects of procurement and on providing insights that can lead to optimization of category spend.

Category driver
  • Increasing demand for enterprise applications from automotive and construction industries

Category management strategy
  • Category innovations and reduction of TCO

Procurement best practices
  • Determine the ability of enterprise applications to add strategic value to businesses

Key questions answered in this report
  • What are the market dynamics?
  • What are the key market trends?
  • What are the category growth drivers?
  • What are the constraints on category growth?
  • Who are the suppliers in this market?
  • What are the demand-supply shifts?
  • What are the major category requirements?
  • What are the procurement best practices in this market?

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Table of Contents

PART 01: Executive Summary
PART 02: Market Insights
  • Global category spend
  • Category spend growth
  • Spend segmentation by region
  • Regional spend dynamics
  • Regional influence on global spend
  • Regional spend opportunity for suppliers

PART 03: Category Pricing Insights
  • Pricing outlook
  • Supplier cost structure
  • Outlook for input costs
  • Total cost of ownership analysis
  • Overview of pricing models
  • Comparison of pricing models
  • Supply chain margins
  • Cost drivers impacting pricing
  • Volume drivers impacting pricing

PART 04: Cost-Saving Opportunities
  • Supplier-side levers
  • Buyer-side levers
  • Quantifying cost-saving opportunities
  • Quantifying cost savings by negotiation strategies

PART 05: Best Practices
  • Innovation and success stories
  • Procurement excellence best practices
  • Procurement best practices
  • Sustainability practices

PART 06: Category Ecosystem
  • Market favorability index for suppliers
  • Competitiveness index for suppliers
  • Buyer power
  • Supplier power
  • Threat of new entrants
  • Threat of substitutes
  • Buyer ecosystem
  • Supplier ecosystem

PART 07: Category Management Strategy
  • Category management objectives
  • Supplier and buyer KPIs
  • Outsourcing category management activities
  • Risk management

PART 08: Category Management Enablers
  • Procurement organization
  • Category enablers

PART 09: Suppliers Selection
  • RFx essentials
  • Supplier selection criteria
  • Service level agreement
  • Incumbent supplier evaluation metrics

PART 10: Suppliers Under Coverage
  • Overview
  • Supplier positioning
  • Profile: Oracle
  • Profile: Microsoft
  • Profile: IBM
  • Profile: HPE
  • Profile: SAP
  • Profile: Salesforce

PART 11: US Market Insights
  • Category spend in the US
  • Price outlook
  • Supplier cost structure in the US
  • Margins of suppliers in the US
  • Category cost drivers
  • Category volume drivers
  • Overview of best practices in the US
  • Procurement best practices in the US
  • US supply market overview
  • Supplier positioning for the US
  • Regional category risks

PART 12: Category Definition
  • Category hierarchy
  • Category scope
  • Category map

PART 13: Appendix
  • List of abbreviations
  • Key notes

List of Exhibits:
  • Global category spend (2018-2023)
  • Category spend growth (2018-2023)
  • Regional spend dynamics
  • Regional spend dynamics
  • Comparison of category maturity across regions
  • Regional spend opportunity for suppliers (2018-2023)
  • Category pricing dynamics
  • Supplier cost breakup
  • Input cost dynamics
  • Total cost of ownership model
  • Benefit comparison of pricing models
  • Pricing models – comparison matrix
  • Supplier margin analysis
  • Margin analysis across supply chain
  • Cost drivers
  • Volume drivers
  • Cost-saving opportunities: Supply-side levers
  • Cost-saving opportunities: Demand-side levers
  • Cost-saving opportunity matrix
  • Negotiation grid
  • Innovation and success stories
  • Procurement excellence summary: Impact on the category
  • Supplier relationship management metrics
  • Strategic sourcing and category management metrics
  • Technology-facilitated procurement metrics
  • Procurement best practices dashboard
  • Sustainability practices: Impact on the category
  • Sustainability best practices
  • Market environment score
  • Market competitiveness score
  • Buyer power score
  • Supplier power score
  • Ease of market entry score
  • Ease of substitution score
  • Buyer ecosystem: Outlook
  • Supplier ecosystem: Outlook
  • Ecosystem disruption threats
  • Key category management objectives
  • Supplier KPI dashboard: Importance for the category
  • Buyer KPI dashboard: Importance for the category
  • Category management enablers
  • Risk management matrix
  • Category enablers: Procurement model
  • Category enablers: Technology
  • RFx questions
  • Phase I RFI considerations
  • SLA terms
  • Supplier performance benchmarking criteria
  • Supplier operational capability matrix
  • Supplier positioning matrix
  • Oracle – Key information dashboard
  • Microsoft – Key information dashboard
  • IBM – Key information dashboard
  • HPE – Key information dashboard
  • SAP – Key information dashboard
  • Salesforce – Key information dashboard
  • US category spend (2018-2023)
  • Category pricing dynamics
  • Supplier cost breakup
  • Supplier margin analysis
  • Margin analysis across supply chain
  • Cost drivers
  • Volume drivers
  • Procurement excellence summary: Impact on the category
  • Supplier relationship management
  • Strategic sourcing and category management
  • Technology-facilitated procurement
  • Procurement best practices dashboard
  • Supplier operational capability matrix
  • Supplier positioning matrix
  • Risk management matrix
  • Category definition
  • Category nuances
  • Importance of category relative to other categories

Executive Summary

The following companies are recognised as the key suppliers in the Global Enterprise Application Category - Procurement Market Intelligence Report: Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, HPE, SAP, Salesforce.

Commenting on the report, an analyst from the research team said: “One of the procurement best practices for buyers is to select enterprise application systems that are based on new technologies that can increase the lifespan and agility of systems.”

According to the report, one of the key growth contributors for the global enterprise application market is the rise in data volume and adoption of data analytics by organizations.

Further, the report states that one of the key category management strategies for the buyers in the global enterprise application market is to ensure the supplier’s adherence to SLA terms as several buyers are increasingly adopting cloud-based applications.

The study was conducted using an objective combination of primary and secondary information including inputs from key participants in the industry. The report contains actionable insights to improve source-to-contract cycle performance in addition to a PESTLE analysis.

Companies Mentioned

  • Oracle
  • Microsoft
  • IBM
  • HPE
  • SAP
  • Salesforce.

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